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  • ‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

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  • Lots of recall campaigns have successfully been done. They have the benefit of being very public and attention grabbing by nature. That's if more immediate ejection/dismissal mechanisms don't exist on a panel/committee.

  • Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes

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  • U.S President Plans White House Meeting With AI Companies Next Week On Federal Partnership To Share Profits With The Public

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  • Thanks, traveling and hadn't seen the s&p update. Looks like NASDAQ's fast track is still on.

  • U.S President Plans White House Meeting With AI Companies Next Week On Federal Partnership To Share Profits With The Public

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  • SpaceX IPO that is being "fast tracked" for inclusion in the S&P500 is exit liquidity for the early investors and musk. Value yourself at some bullshit and force the public to buy your shares by inclusion in the most popular index fund who are required to weight their holdings based on market cap of your stock and buy shares to mirror index.if the company were so valuable and amazing with future growth prospects why would any insiders who already have pre-IPO shares want to sell? To cash out and/or de-risk is the only answer, and the general public's retirement will fund it. It's the same reason Trump is pushing the FTC to allow riskier assets like crypto and private investments in 401k accounts; exit liquidity for the current holders, most of whom know their investments are shit. Who better to buy them than index funds and the general public by limited choice in 401k fund options?

    If any of this sounds familiar, it's the same playbook as the great recession/"financial crisis", when the rich elite suddenly required rescuing and backing of the US gov because their greed didn't offer an out. Suddenly the public's problem when they would have to take a loss.

  • Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers

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  • 🤌🍾🌈👌🤤😂

  • TIL that the United States was selling raw materials to Nazi Germany in the middle of the battle of kursk in 1943

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  • Where can one read more about that?

  • TIL that the United States was selling raw materials to Nazi Germany in the middle of the battle of kursk in 1943

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  • What is the Oregon tie-in to war profiteering/Hitler? I'm aware of some of the businesses still selling in Nazi Germany like Coke(origins of Fanta), but I've never heard of Oregon called out specifically/notably during WWII out of all the US states?

  • China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk

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    Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on how to decide which employees AI should replace

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  • Yes but how else do you exert power and create a culture of fear? Treating employees as individuals to be valued rather than a limit of their current job title is of course, unreasonable.

  • California’s Universities Went All In on A.I. The Result Has Been Chaos

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  • The best part is this is as good as the AI slop will get. Knowledge, digitally anyway, via search, peaked about 2 years ago. Primary source information will still be valid digitally...unless authors incorporate slop into their work, which will take dedication and care to do.

  • Microsoft converts Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses to read-only versions

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  • They met with telecom companies and heard about "unlimited"

  • JD Vance Tells U.S. Air Force Grads They Can't Boo His Commencement Speech Because 'I'm the Vice President of the United States'

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  • A leader and a supervisor are often conflated, but they are critically different. One uses power assigned to them, one draws power willingly given to them by using it correctly.

  • Kid Rock humiliated as he's snubbed from Donald Trump's MAGA festival line-up

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  • Who said roundup? Yee haw!

  • US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows

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  • As opposed to their extremism, which is "just how the world should be".

    Fucking stupid kindergarten shit

  • Spain blocks Polymarket, Kalshi over gambling licences

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  • Standard Chartered Bank to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AI

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  • The Italian purse company?

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can't maintain a quality of life at all.

    Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren't there yet, so it hasn't fallen apart.

    This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There's more too it than "we convince them to vote against their own best interest".

    The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.

  • Magnets Are Bad For Hardware Again

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  • I would subscribe to your newsletter. All I want is ruthless, merciless cutting through the bullshit, keyword stuffing, buzzword clickbait.

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:

    • the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
    • religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
    • "law and order" voters to support him as a convicted felon
    • women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
    • those who want to "protect the children" that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
    • descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
    • those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
    • veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
    • veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
    • rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
    • corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is "certainty" to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency

    ...there is so much more. That's just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn't even difficult compared to some of the above.